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0 the fact of grammatical patterns being ergative
The term ergativity is used to describe a grammatical pattern in which the subject of an intransitive clause is treated in the same way as the object of a transitive clause. 通格性这一术语用来描述一种语法现象,即不及物分句的主语可以用作及物分句的宾语。
Ergativity occurs in only a small number of the language families of North America. 作格现象只出现在北美的少数语系中。